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28 Before-And-After Pics Reveal What War Did To The Largest City In Syria
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Aleppo, Syria is probably the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. With the first settlers dating to 6 millennia B.C. it has amassed incomprehensible amounts of history behind its walls. Aleppo used to be the biggest city in Syria, but since 2012 July the 19th, when horrors of Syrian War ensued, now Damascus, Syria's capital, is largest.
The Syrian Civil War, still happening today, has demanded deaths of thousands of civilians, and with the center of it all being Aleppo, the many barrel bombs dropped from helicopters have destroyed what used to be the oldest city in the world. The hammams, souqs, basilicas, and the ancient Old Town had turned to rubble because of this dispute. Not to mention the many peoples' lives it has destroyed.
Now, we do understand that these war pictures of the great city before and after the war is not our usual cheery topic to write about, but sometimes it's good to have a reality check.
Scroll down below to see the destruction of UNESCO World Heritage site in our picture list of Syria before and after the war.
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A few years back I sat there and had an amazing meal in one of the friendliest cities I've ever visited. Now... an unbelievable tragedy.
These photos make you think about how war can destroy things in an instant that took months or years to construct. And when it's a person who's destroyed, there's no way to "rebuild."
My grandparents born in there.. It breaks my heart see how destroyed this city is ????????
Such a beautiful country, what a waist. My heart felt sympathy to you all past and present.
My brain actually cannot accept this information. The destruction is quite inconceivable.
What we see in pictures is only collateral damages, what can't be seen is a lot more; human sufferings, innocent people killed including women and children. Hospitals, schools and other educational institutions, place of worship ect. Displaced persons facing other brutalities of all sorts. Why all these sufferings to a country which was considered a peaceful place to live and no record of human rights violations. Then why all this continues to go on and on, what the united nation and the civilized world is doing, what is the hidden agenda behind the brutal human sufferings?
Some of the oldest Christian churches and Christian people are in Syria.
I don't know bout you guys, but we shouldn't be concentration on being politically correct. Just let the gays and stuff like that have their marrage other countries, so we ca focus our concentration on things like this, saving trees, and not driving ourselves to extinction (*cough* global warming *cough* logging *cough*)
Men can built soo much beautiful things...for many years...and then, in a few minutes they can destroy all of it... for what?! Soo sad :(((
Really depressing looking through these. What was a very prosperous country now looks like a building site. I am so terribly sorry to be from 1 of the countries that caused this. We should have left well alone instead of all the time thinking we know better.
i don't understand why outside countries can to bomb them also. whyyyy this don't make sense.
This is so sad to see a beautiful country turned to rubble... It shows exactly the real cost of war that many do not see...
It doesn't show the lives that are lost! Although the destruction is immense and has a lot of impact on people in the end buildings can be restored.
Although I agree that the photos don't show human loss, it isn't true that building can be restored. We are losing our History. Those centuries-old monuments can't be rebuilt. Research won't be able to be done on them. It's loss forever and that a tragic.
But it shows the way of living that has been lost. Its really sad.
I realise that..I was just commenting on the photos... Many people around the world are dying through wars, a statistic that will never change unfortunately...
" It shows exactly" only when war is in your country, in your city. Everything else is vicarious at bast, and never "exactly".
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All are done for the sake of Israel & USA.
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It's amazing and at the same time so sad to see what Syrians and its unique heritage has been through. Thank you Hanna Karim for don't let us forget Syria is the acient home town from all of us. I have been there was. I am looking for to come back
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All are done for the sake of Israel & USA.
Peter, you braindead low IQed moron, the US, using the CIA, supplies the terrorists with weapons, among them with TOW2B, from Saudi stockpile from a contract form the early 90s. OFFICIALLY. idiot. The US is responsible for every single death in Iraq and Syria.
Sorry kombizz, you're either demagog or idiot. I've got no other explanation for what you've written here. Oh, by the way, I'm neither Israeli nor American.
None of this was done for Israel or Israel. That's just the automatic response to anything by clueless IQ-less type like you.
This is how "Importing Democracy" looks like! Someone should make a post about Libya & Iraq too! Someone rightly stated- what benefit did this war bring to Syrian people? With Assad or against Assad- was it worth it?!
This is Bible prophecy being fulfilled.
It wasn't just about democracy, though it they'd had political power it would have helped. It was about saving people from being tortured, raped, jailed without trial and starved to death. Was it worth it to fight that? Yes. And they might have won if other (mostly Western) countries hadn't interfered.
Actually the problem of it is the lack of democracy, not its presence. They tried to impose a democracy, but the people wanted it to be truly democratic.
This is so sad to see a beautiful country turned to rubble... It shows exactly the real cost of war that many do not see...
It doesn't show the lives that are lost! Although the destruction is immense and has a lot of impact on people in the end buildings can be restored.
Although I agree that the photos don't show human loss, it isn't true that building can be restored. We are losing our History. Those centuries-old monuments can't be rebuilt. Research won't be able to be done on them. It's loss forever and that a tragic.
But it shows the way of living that has been lost. Its really sad.
I realise that..I was just commenting on the photos... Many people around the world are dying through wars, a statistic that will never change unfortunately...
" It shows exactly" only when war is in your country, in your city. Everything else is vicarious at bast, and never "exactly".
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All are done for the sake of Israel & USA.
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It's amazing and at the same time so sad to see what Syrians and its unique heritage has been through. Thank you Hanna Karim for don't let us forget Syria is the acient home town from all of us. I have been there was. I am looking for to come back
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All are done for the sake of Israel & USA.
Peter, you braindead low IQed moron, the US, using the CIA, supplies the terrorists with weapons, among them with TOW2B, from Saudi stockpile from a contract form the early 90s. OFFICIALLY. idiot. The US is responsible for every single death in Iraq and Syria.
Sorry kombizz, you're either demagog or idiot. I've got no other explanation for what you've written here. Oh, by the way, I'm neither Israeli nor American.
None of this was done for Israel or Israel. That's just the automatic response to anything by clueless IQ-less type like you.
This is how "Importing Democracy" looks like! Someone should make a post about Libya & Iraq too! Someone rightly stated- what benefit did this war bring to Syrian people? With Assad or against Assad- was it worth it?!
This is Bible prophecy being fulfilled.
It wasn't just about democracy, though it they'd had political power it would have helped. It was about saving people from being tortured, raped, jailed without trial and starved to death. Was it worth it to fight that? Yes. And they might have won if other (mostly Western) countries hadn't interfered.
Actually the problem of it is the lack of democracy, not its presence. They tried to impose a democracy, but the people wanted it to be truly democratic.